Thesaurus
mischievous
Synonyms and Antonyms of mischievous
- the children had been so mischievous that we had to pay the babysitter extra and then clean up the mess
- punished for their mischievous tricks on the neighbors
defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite, improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth, unmannerly
disobedient, headstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing, unruly, untoward, willful (or wilful)
balky, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wild
arch, elfish, impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish, prankish, rascally, roguish, waggish
dissolute, perverse, wrongheaded
insurgent, mutinous, rebellious
disobliging, inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, unkind, unkindly
babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish, puerile
acquiescent, compliant, complying, dutiful, obedient, submissive
clean, correct, decent, decorous, moral, proper, respectable
considerate, courteous, kindly, mannerly, polite, thoughtful
angelic (or angelical), cherubic, divine, heavenly
amenable, docile, governable, tractable
- mischievous gossip that ruined a good teacher's reputation
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous
insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
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